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∙ 12y agoAushwitz in Poland one of the biggest death camps in the world war 2 run be ruldof hoss a Nazi
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∙ 12y agoConcentration camps were death camps. The people that were scheduled to die were concentrated into areas for easier delivery to the death chambers.
All camps were technically concentration camps, generally the extermination camps were called 'death camps'.
The sole purpose of the extermination camps was to kill Jews and gypsies, usually by gassing, except for a small number who were selected to help with the extermination process itself. At these camps nearly all new arrivals were gassed as soon as practical:BelzecChelmnoSobiborTreblinka IIThere are very few survivors from these camps (two each from Belzec and Chelmno, about 50 from Sobibor and about 40 from Trelinka II).The Auschwitz group of camps was different. It had a gassing centre (part of Aischwitz II aka Birkenau) and was also a vast group of concentration camps (forced labour camps). Physically fit new arrivals were sent to the concentration camps, where most of them were worked to death on grossly inadequate rations.Majdanek was the only other camp that combined both functions.
Unfortunately, there were dozens upon dozens of death camps, or concentration camps as the Nazis preferred to call them. However, they were all centered in Germany and Poland. Poland was primarily where the camps were because that was basically 'Jew central'. It was also the first country in the war to be invaded and conquered.
Jews were put to death, mainly by shooting or gassing. (Gentile) Russians were worked to death.
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the last gassing was in December 1944.
Some Concentration Camps were used as Death Camps, gassing and cremating hundreds of victims at a time.
The extermination camps relied mainly on gassing to kill. Some prisoners were shot and at some of the camps they were worked to death on inadequate food.
Concentration camps were death camps. The people that were scheduled to die were concentrated into areas for easier delivery to the death chambers.
Hitler's plan for the Final solution for the Jewish people began in 1942. He began having SS officers shooting, gassing and starving Jews in death camps.
Concentration Camps Transit Camps Labour Camps Death Camps Extermination Camps.
Location of a meeting in 1942 of Nazi leaders where the decision to begin using death camps was made
The best known are Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen. (These were all concentatration camps rather than death camps in the more exact sense).
630,135 from 25 major camps and 1000 smaller camps
There were no death camps in German East Africa during World War I. The German colony of East Africa (present-day Tanzania) did not have a systematic extermination program like the death camps established by Nazi Germany during World War II.
All camps were technically concentration camps, generally the extermination camps were called 'death camps'.